Several festivals and events are going
on inside Toronto during both warm and cold weather times. Most of the cold
weather time festivals are held inside the Nathan Phillips Square, while the
warm weather ones are more scattered inside the city. While it is impossible to
cover all these festivals and events in one page, I have tried to gather some of
the main ones while I missed a few ones, which I will try to add them later.
This page is categorized to two main parts, first October-April and second,
May-September.

In Toronto lots of fun activities are
going on during Halloween night as well as the weekends before Halloween. One of
the best events on Halloween night in Toronto, is the festival of costumes in
Church area. You can find many exciting, innovative costumes here.

In November,
several Santa Claus parades are running in Toronto. The Santa Claus parade in
downtown area can be considered as one of the main events of Toronto, which passes
from several main streets of Toronto downtown.

This festival starts
ends of November and lasts for at least a month.
It includes fireworks and light show in Nathan Phillips Square, which is
located in
front of the new Toronto city hall and beside the old one. The below photos
were taken on Nov. 25, 2006.

Aboriginal festival is held every year
around ends of November and firsts of December in Rogers Center in Toronto.
During these typically three days festival, one can enjoy the beautiful native
dances of lots of north American aboriginal groups in the ceremonies, which are
called Pow Wow.

Every year on December 31, Torontonians are
gathered in Nathan Phillips square to celebrate the new year. During this event,
many music groups play and finally at midnight the firework is displaying. In the
below photos you can find photos from crowd, music groups and fireworks.

It is a two weeks winter celebration in Toronto
during January and
February. This event in 2008 included
nights of fires in Nathan Phillips square by
firing up lots of fires around and inside the square. .

Yorkville Icefest

While in the cold and long winter of
Toronto, it is hard to do outdoor activities, it is fun to enjoy several
festivals and events which are running around the city, specially
Yorkville Icefest, which is happening in the late February. One
of the main programs in this event is the ice carving competition, which
includes the exhibition of several ice statues.

Getting maple syrup from maple trees has a long history which rooted in the
aboriginal people traditions, who have been in Canada long time before
the immigration of Europeans to Canada. The tradition of getting maple syrup during the
firsts of spring time is passed from the aboriginals to the new residents of
Canada. In the below photos, you can find the tour of maple syrup photos at
Sugar bush maple syrup festival,
which was held in Kortright Centre for
conservation at the north west of GTA (Great Toronto Area) during March
and the firsts of April.

Victoria Day is an official holiday in
Canada and people celebrate this day by displaying fireworks and doing different
kinds of fun activities in several parts of the city, however the main
gathering typically happens around Woodbine beach, east of Toronto.

Toronto City Hall and Around it, during
Open Doors Toronto

Most of these photos were taken during
doors open Toronto days,
which typically happens on the last weekends in May. During "doors open Toronto" weekends, one can access to
many historical buildings and attractions, including the both old and new City
Halls, in free.

Pride Parade Toronto (Ends
of June)

The pride parade is one of the most
famous Toronto festivals. This festival attracts hundreds of thousands tourists to
Toronto each Summer and it is a celebration of diversity in Toronto and LGBT
culture. The pride parade is part of the pride week of Toronto, which is
being held ends of June and it is one of the world largest gay pride festivals.
The parade and the festival events are held mainly along the Yonge street and
Church-Wellesley village .

The Canada day is one of the main holidays in Canada and
lots of activities and fireworks are going on every parts of the country. In
Toronto people gather and celebrate this event in different parts of the city.

Caribana Festival (Ends
of July and firsts of August)

Caribana is one of the most famous festivals of Toronto
that brings more than a million tourists to Toronto each summer. This
festival is about the Caribbean cultures (specially their music and dance) and
it is held by the lake shore during the ends of July and the firsts of
August.

It is a yearly three days festival in
Danforth street, beside the Toronto Greek town. While from the name it appears
that this festival focuses on meals and foods, actually several other fun
activities happen beside tasting different meals.